- Overall, about 65 percent of college students returned to school in Colorado in the fall of 2020, down about two percentage points from the previous year. But, some did better than others, which has left administrators wondering how to keep the students who start at their schools.
- The Aurora Public Schools report is one of the frankest assessments of any major Colorado district’s pandemic performance so far.
- STEM School Highlands Ranch consistently rates among the highest-performing schools in the state. But almost 40 percent of secondary teachers left the school this year, 35 percent of them resignations.
- Anger management classes can benefit some young people, especially first-time offenders. But there are limits.
- On Thursday, the state legislature passed the Public School Finance Act, the legislation that sets funding levels each year. If Gov. Jared Polis signs the bill, it will make a permanent change in the allocation formula for schools — that is, it would send more money to districts to teach students who come from low-income families or who are English language learners.
- Bronx native Alex Marrero will begin his job overseeing Colorado’s largest school district with more than 92,000 students in 207 schools and over 14,000 employees on July 6.
- CPR News has been following the students of Room 132 at Josephine Hodgkins Leadership Academy in Westminster Public Schools all pandemic year long. Now that they are done, we asked them to tell us what it was like.
- The new leader is tasked with unifying the district, closing achievement gaps and helping staff plan what a return to school in the fall will look like amid the COVID pandemic.
- Racial justice protests, political turmoil and the pandemic all left their mark on each and every person, and students were not immune to it. So the faculty at Warren Tech in the Jefferson County School district wanted to give their classes a way of conveying how the last year has changed them. They found their medium in the poster.
- The University of Colorado Board of Regents Wednesday approved a $1.3 million departure payment for President Mark Kennedy, who announced earlier this month that he was leaving after two years on the job.
- At the American Indian Academy of Denver, Indigenous principles and knowledge are infused throughout the curriculum, including in trips to the Hayman fire burn scar.
- The COVID-19 vaccine is currently administered through emergency use authorization by the federal government.
- Mark Kennedy had recently been censured and was on increasingly shaky ground with a Board of Regents.
- Why exactly increased access to birth control leads to higher graduation rates is unclear.
- Twelve metro Denver school districts — but not Denver Public Schools — say the costs of quarantines to students' social and emotional development and academic progress have been great.
- The problem is larger than school district policies, students say. It's also the way school administrators and mandatory reporters handle sexual assault allegations.
